Geraghty: Two Bits of Data Suggesting ... Hillary?

National Review ^ | August 20, 2008 | Jim Geraghty

[Oliver Optic]

From Jim Geraghty's CampaignSpot blog at National Review:

Soren Dayton, writing over at The Next Right:

A very good source is telling me that multiple DNC members have told him that Hillary is the person. While not immediately intuitive, Clinton is the candidate who one can easily imagine helping with Barack Obama's numbers. Which seem to be ... in bad shape? Who else would fundamentally shift the numbers? You could see her bringing Democrats back home, etc., in a way that none of the other candidates could.

By the way, she would probably school most Republican VP candidates in the debates. And she and Bill know how to attack attack attack.

Meanwhile, arriving in my e-mailbox moments ago:

Hillary Clinton will campaign for Senator Barack Obama in Florida’s Orange County, Palm Beach County, and Broward County on Thursday, August 21.

In Orange County, Hillary Clinton will meet with officials from the Sheet Metal Workers International Association. Media may cover this event, but it is not open to the public.

[montag813]

If Hillary is picked, the race is over. Perhaps Johnny should have kept the Paris Hilton ad until after the DNC.

[montag813]

Hilary doesnt WANT to be his VP...She knows he is ‘unelectable’, and will be swiftboated out of contention.

Yes, but this campaign has taught her that she cannot count on being nominated--ever. This is her last chance. Plus, she knows that "something" may happen to a Prez Obama in office.

[Churchillspirit]

My gut feeling is still that Hillary! is going to wrangle the nomination from 'bama.....

All hell will be let loose from the African-Americans if that happens.

Pray that it does not happen.

[MamaLucci]

I hope he does this..............there goes the "change" meme.
What other supposedly deeply held ideals would he
abandon for political expediency???

[montag813]

If Obama is naming his VP tomorrow, then it’s not going to be Hillary. He’d be her last choice, the one that he would choose only if he had no other choice. But you don’t make that Hobson’s choice until the convention.

Impressive logic. However the logic of DONOR CASH may be more compelling in this case.

[montag813]

Think about it. Hillary wants to be POTUS. Her next, and probably only, shot will be 2012.

But she thought 2008 was a shoo-in. She was wrong, and she isn't getting any younger. THIS may be her only shot. I'd say the likelihood is 55%.

[AFPhys]

Even choosing Hitlery as VP will hurt him: I have a fool aunt who is (was?) a huge SnObama supporter and stated flat out to me when I asked that if he chose Hitlery for VP, she would then NOT vote for him.

[Pan_Yan]

Being POTUS with a Vice President Hillary would be more dangerous than being a Pakistani Presidential bodyguard or #3 man in Al Queda.

[PghBaldy]

LBJ and Kennedy didn’t like each other, AFAIK.

[Edit35]

Always thought it would be Hillary for VP.

If he didn’t pick her, she would hold his very campaign in her gnarled hands.... and with just one phrase could destroy him

[Southack]

"I doubt she wants to be Obama’s VP. Maybe I’m wrong, but I think she hopes his numbers cause the convention to go her way. If not, she will sit back, open a box of popcorn, and enjoy the debacle, then bide her time til 2012. She knows McCain is an old man."

Hillary has at least four ways to walk back into the White House:

#1: she can oust Obama with a floor vote in Denver (then name Obama as her VP candidate to keep his supporters on her plantation)

#2: she can be McCain's VP

#3: she can be Obama's VP

#4: she can wait until 2012

[drc43]

"#4: she can wait until 2012 "

I pick door # 4.

[skr]

So “It’s Obama’s Turn to Cry”? It will be interesting.

[Grampa Dave]

So how are you doing down there with the polls big fellow?

[TennTuxedo]

I have been telling people for the past 2 months that Hillary was going to be Obama's VP running mate.

He can not win without her supporters. Its a pact with the devil.

[MissMagnolia]

Kennedy wasn’t married to Michelle .... :-)

[UCANSEE2]

“LBJ and Kennedy didn’t like each other, AFAIK.”

Gore and the Clintons didn’t like each other, AFAIK.

And, that is why the ‘assassinations’ during their terms, so resemble each other.

Did LBJ or Gore or Hillary plan and execute JFK or Foster?

No. They were smarter than that, and a bit too busy.

They did what they always do, when you are in a position of power.

You just let certain members of organized crime learn they are about to be thrown under the bus.

[UCANSEE2]

“#4: she can wait until 2012 “

I pick door # 4.

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No kidding. The world ends on that date anyway, so we still won’t have to live with her as President.

[Portrait of a Lady]

Found this on another comment forum.

gdupree wrote:

Following is the list of Keynote Speakers and Topics at the upcoming Democrat Convention:

Marion Barry -— Drug Abuse

Rep. Denny Kucinich -— How to garner 1 % of the vote in every primary entered

Sen. Chrissy Dodd -— Obtaining Countrywide loans

Sen. Chucky Schumer -— How to initiate a run on a bank

Jesse Jackson —— Marital fidelity and Castration

John Edwards —— Ambulance Chasing and Spousal support in time of need

Sen. Theodore Kennedy -— Driver education and How to stop a pending autopsy

James McGreevey —— Gay rights

Mayor Ray Nagin -— Emergency evacuation preparations

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick – Email etiquette in the workplace

Al Sharpton —— Race relations

Sen. Evan Bayh -— How to ignore the Liberal wing of the Democratic Party and support the war in Iraq

Al Gore -— Snow Removal

Louis Farrakhan -— Muslims in America and a Muslim in the White House

[Jess Kitting]

A very good source is telling me that multiple DNC members have told him that Hillary is the person.

Hillary is the person for What?

Obama's VP
The Dem nomination
Most likely to stage a coup at the Dem convention

She's got all her bases covered.